[TBP]

It looks like the conservative base is starting to coaesce around Cruz.

[Roger Kaputnik]

MSM, DNC, and GOPe are working overtime and in tandem to pick our candidate for us AGAIN. Rigged polls and false narratives ain’t gonna work this time. Hold fast and flip them the bird. Vote Trump.

[montag813]

President Santorum agrees.

[Helicondelta]

The trend is looking good:

[American Constitutionalist]

This is where all the hard work of Ted CRUZ and his national campaign network pays off.

[TBP]

Not only does Cruz have his own substantial base of support, he appears to be the second choice of many of the other candidates’ supporters. As more and more people fall by the wayside, that could be a good place to be.

[montag813]

Cruz wins in Iowa, deflating Trump’s balloon considerably. Trump followers start to search for another candidate who still addresses their wrath against how both political parties are treating them.

Why would Trump followers care what the ethanol and illegal alien labor-addicted cornholes think about anything? Trump will sweep Super Tuesday. Those primaries are all that matter, and should come first.

[Personal Responsibility]

If Iowa was as important as this article claims, Rick Santorum would have been the 2012 nominee.

[roamer_1]

[dalereed]

This clown is dreaming!!

[Signalman]

Polls may underestimate Trump support:

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trump-polls-20151221-story.html

[Reno89519]

Show a crowd and some numbers. I really think this is media hype to promote alternatives.

[American in Israel]

Nice that for a change a Cruz thread went one whole post before the Trumpeters hijacked it.

Trumps new party symbol should be a jackass. Not sure I will enjoy a jackass in the white house, but it is a step up from Bammy.

[catnipman]

Just another reiteration of the BS Erick Erickson article you posted earlier. See if you can find a few more echos of the same thing to make it look like there’s more going on here than just more repetition of the same Erick Erickson bullshit.

[DesertRhino]

Erik Erickson again. Got it.

[Mariner]

So, the man who leads every national poll, in some cases doubling the support of his next two competitors combined, is simply going to crash and burn?

Of course Cruz wins Iowa.

But, consider, what comes after that? Does anyone really believe Trump will not win NH? Or NC?

It's a reach, at best.

[Iscool]

Nonsense...If Trump loses Iowa, his national poll numbers will go up...

[867V309]

As Iawoo goes, so goes the nation!

[Rockingham]

Cruz has lots of cash, a disciplined and talented campaign organization, and a national following of conservative activists. Trump has the advantages of being self-funded and able to draw large crowds and fervent support from marginalized and disaffected conservative voters. With Trump and Cruz politically sympathetic, the best outcome may be a Cruz-Trump or Trump-Cruz ticket.

Unfortunately, it is not at all clear that either Trump or Cruz or both together can expand the GOP's political base enough to win the Presidency. Yet a pairing of the two as the GOP ticket might win by relentlessly out-campaigning Hillary and the Democrats. Cruz and Trump are both excellent close in fighters unafraid of delivering solid hits against their opponents -- something that McCain and Romney proved incapable of.

[Angels27]

I wish Cruz would be the nominee, but all signs point it’s going be Trump. The Trump will get whalloped by Hillary. I firmly believe Cruz is the only Conservative candidate in the race and us the only one who can sell Conservatism to those precious Independent voters.

On the other hand Trump is such an egomaniac, he will run 3rd party if Cruz beats him out.

Either way, get ready for more Socialist hell.